Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold out to the Detroit Aircraft Corp. Detroit Aircraft soon went...
Soft-voiced Señor Vega Gomez answered the phone. Besides the U.S., Mexico and Chile, he did not know how many American nations had lately recognized his Government. He referred me to the State Department...
...Washington, El Salvador's Embassy was turned over last week to its new secretary, Licenciado Doctor Don Felipe Vega Gomez. Until the United States recently turned on the heat, only two countries (Honduras and Nicaragua) recognized its unpopular Government. TIME's Washington Correspondent Daniel del Solar called up to ask how many nations had now recognized El Salvador. Correspondent Del Solar reported what followed...
Back to Front. In Cairo, Al Mukhtar sells for three piasters (12½ cents). To help cover costs, the Digest reverses its U.S. policy, takes advertising. Among the advertisers: Glenn L. Martin and Vega Airplane, Higgins Industries, Parker Pen. At three piasters the Arabic edition is still a luxury item for most Mid-Easterners; at the Digest's, U.S. price, 25?, there would probably be little circulation...
Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons...